Acting for the Transformation of our Societies - 
Examples from different world regions

 

Public seminar in the context of the Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF), Brussels, 6 Oct. 2010, 9:00 - 18:30

 

Venue: International Trade Union House (ETUC), Boulevard Roi Albert II-5, 1210 Brussels

Time: 6 Oct. 2010, 9:00 - 18:30

Organisation: RLF Brussels

Evening: Reception at Rosa Luxembug Foundation Brussels, Ave. Michel-Ange 11, 1000 Brussels, 6 Oct. 2010, 20:00 h

Documentation:

 

* Entry projects to a politics of solidarity (Brie)

* Transformation of the international Financial Regime (Páez)

* Conference report

 

The Seminar:

The seminar was directly connected to the Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF) (for informations on AEPF see below). In the seminar, experiences with transformatory projects were exchanged and analysed. The examples from different world regions have been:

 

Namibia: Basic income

BIG Coalition, Nambia (presented by Herbert Jauch)

http://www.bignam.org/

South America: Bank of the South

Technical Commission of the Bank of the South, Ecuador (presented by Pedro Páez Pérez, president of the Technical Commission of the Bank of the South for Ecuador)

http://en.wikipedia.org/

 

India: The right to work

National Rural Employment Guarentee Act (NREGA), India; Government of India, Ministry of Rural Development (presented by Kamal Mitra Chenoy)

http://nrega.nic.in/netnrega/home.aspx

 

Southeast Asia: Anchoring social basic rights in constitutions

Social Protection and Decent Work, South-East Asian Network (presented by Tina Ebro)

http://staging.ipd.org.ph/

 

Europe: Transformation of the auto-mobile sector

Institute for Social Analysis, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin (presented by Michael Brie, Director of the Institute)

http://www.rosalux.de/

 

Contact: Roland Kulke, kulke@rosalux-europa.info

Phone: +32 (0)2 738 7662

Further information:

>> The Presented Projects in Detail
>> Programme of Seminar
>> Information on Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEFP)